The Brighton Magazine

Selected Brighton Magazine Article

Brighton Digital Festival, the UK's largest celebration of digital culture, today announces its programme of more than 150 events for the festival’s fifth instalment which runs from 1st to 27th September 2015.

This year's Brighton Early Music Festival is celebrating Women - as composers, performers, inspirational characters, muses and symbols, and includes the largest UK celebration of historical women composers.

It was a sorely belated recognition for one of the most beautiful voices of the 21st century,matched by a songwriting and lyrical prowess that conveyed every atom of pain, fear and endurance that has defined John Grant's life so far, not just with a striking level of self-awareness but the most life-affirming streak of dark and scabrous humour too.

Before his death, actor Terence Rigby asked dramatist and close friend, Juliet Ace, to assist him in compiling his biography. With such a wide and varied career, Ace knew it would be no easy task. Unfortunately, Rigby died before she had even scratched the surface.

Kate Rusby is able to inhabit a song with unforced conviction – no matter how old or how modern – she has that rare ability to transport her audience, of touching them emotionally and making each tune live vividly within their experience and imagination.

South East Dance is bringing dance to the streets of Brighton as part of Space To Dance, a campaign to generate awareness and support forThe Dance Space, a new home for dance in the heart of the Circus Street Market regeneration area.

One Album Per Hour sees Beardyman use a collaborative creative process, gathering song titles and genres from his audience suggestions and turning them into a uniquely stylised album produced live in front of their very eyes.